Too Many Wives Explained

Too Many Wives
Director:Ben Holmes
Producer:William Sistrom
Starring:Anne Shirley
Gene Lockhart
Barbara Pepper
Music:Roy Webb
Cinematography:Nicholas Musuraca
Editing:Desmond Marquette
Studio:RKO Radio Pictures
Distributor:RKO Radio Pictures
Runtime:70 minutes
Country:United States
Language:English
Budget:$105,000[1]
Gross:$122,000

Too Many Wives is a 1937 American comedy film directed by Ben Holmes and starring Anne Shirley, Gene Lockhart and Barbara Pepper. Produced and distributed by RKO Pictures, it lost $35,000.[1]

Plot

To gain a job as a newspaper reporter, desperate dog walker Barry Trent lies that he is married with children and needs the employment badly. When he begins dating Betty Jackson, his lies come back to bite him, including when her high-society suitor Clabby pays a woman named Angela a thousand dollars to lie that she is Barry's wife.

A robbery of a valuable stamp is a further complication, but Barry solves the crime (a dog has the stamp) and then races to city hall to stop Betty from marrying Clabby.

Cast

Dudley Clements as Publisher and editor, Mansfield

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Notes and References

  1. Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p57